Finished!
I am going to unfuck this situation today.
Keepin those new years resolutions, y’all.
![believermag:
Below is the second excerpt from my interview with Joan Didion. She was in a hotel in Washington; I was in Toronto. The entire interview will be posted on The Believer website in a few weeks, while further excerpts will posted here. Previous excerpt. - Sheila Heti
BLVR: You have a line in The White Album where you say, “I came into adult life equipped with an essentially romantic ethic, believing that salvation lay in extreme and doomed commitments.”
JD: Right.
BLVR: I wonder if you consider marriage or motherhood, or even writing—
JD: I did consider marriage and motherhood extreme and doomed commitments. Not out of any experience of them as such, but it was simply the way I looked at things.
BLVR: And having experienced motherhood and marriage, do you still see them as extreme and doomed commitments?
JD: No, I don’t. I mean, not—I don’t. I see them as, well, certainly they were for me a kind of salvation.
BLVR: Salvation from what?
JD: From a loneliness, an aloneness.
BLVR: Because the relationship was so intimate, or just the fact of a marriage?
JD: Just having another person, answering to another person, was very—it was novel to me, and it turned out to be [sly smile audible] kind of great.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly298h9Ssf1qzh8wko1_500.jpg)
Below is the second excerpt from my interview with Joan Didion. She was in a hotel in Washington; I was in Toronto. The entire interview will be posted on The Believer website in a few weeks, while further excerpts will posted here. Previous excerpt. - Sheila Heti
BLVR: You have a line in The White Album where you say, “I came into adult life equipped with an essentially romantic ethic, believing that salvation lay in extreme and doomed commitments.”
JD: Right.
BLVR: I wonder if you consider marriage or motherhood, or even writing—
JD: I did consider marriage and motherhood extreme and doomed commitments. Not out of any experience of them as such, but it was simply the way I looked at things.
BLVR: And having experienced motherhood and marriage, do you still see them as extreme and doomed commitments?
JD: No, I don’t. I mean, not—I don’t. I see them as, well, certainly they were for me a kind of salvation.
BLVR: Salvation from what?
JD: From a loneliness, an aloneness.
BLVR: Because the relationship was so intimate, or just the fact of a marriage?
JD: Just having another person, answering to another person, was very—it was novel to me, and it turned out to be [sly smile audible] kind of great.
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Being this broke
Is like cooking on Chopped, except for it’s the College Kid Edition: ladies and gentlemen, what can she make with ramen, a jar of pickles, 3 month old fruit snacks and a walmart gift card with approximately $15.33 on it?? Note: whatever it is, it must last for about a week.
The next step? My barren pantry turns me into an episode of The Biggest Loser: Extreme Edition.
This. Last night. My whole life.
(Source: beautyinthebreakdown8, via feminaamphibios)
Ten Resolutions for the New Year:
1. Lose weight so you can dress slutty like a biker chick who can’t actually ride a motorcycle because that’s a very dangerous pastime.
2. Get a tattoo even though you’re afraid of needles, pansyass.
3. Watch all those seasons of TV on DVD that you bought last year while you were drunk on amazon.
4. Remember how you quit drinking? That’s why. Keep it up.
5. You know very well that you will never have to resolve to read. However, here is a list of books that have been sitting in your to-read pile for over a year: Gravity’s Rainbow, Absalom, Absalom!, The Brothers Karamazov, Blood Meridian, Ulysses, Infinite Jest. Stop reading Charlaine Harris “novels” and expand your mind a little bit so you won’t sound like such a dumbass when you accidentally get into literary conversations with your new cook buddy. Maybe you should also consider re-reading: The Golden Notebook, East of Eden, 100 Years of Solitude, The New York Trilogy and Proust.
6. It’s time to start either telling people what you think of them or shutting up about what you think about people. If you don’t have the balls to say something bitchy to someone’s face, you probably shouldn’t say it at all. If you do have the balls, then by all means, go ahead.
7. Save some money, because that’s a staple resolution and you put it on your list not intending to do it every year.
8. Learn to cook and (9.) learn to sew, so you can go off the grid someday and still feed yourself and have cute clothes.
10. Learn to live with less stuff. Follow more of the organizational rules set forth in Real Simple.
I’m enjoying that my official status as drunk wrangler is earning me free diet cokes.
